Game board



Oct. 15, 1929. L. SCHMITT ET AL 1,731,353

GAME BOARD Filed March 22, 1929 INVENTORS LOQEN Z ECHM ITT 771 ATTOR N EY Patented Oct 15, 1929 UNITED STATES,

FPATVENT OFFICE i GAME BOARD Application. filed March 22, 1929. Serial 110. 349,132.

Our invention relates to amusement devices and has for its object the provision of a game including a game board having a hard highly polished surface preferably of glass, and

movable pieces or nine pins and adapted to be knocked over by a top spun upon the board.

Heretofore it has been the practice .to have the game board so constructed that the front end is elevated, that is the end from which the top is spun.

The disadvantage of a game board so constructed we find'resides in the fact that when the top is spun, instead of traveling with dispatch towards the movable pieces or nine pins as intended, the top generally remains on the 7 spot on which the top was spun.

A feature of our invention'resides in the construction and particularly the way the game board is tilted so as to give the game board a slight lopsided slant.

Another feature of our invention is the method of causing the top always to travel forward toward the movable pieces or nine Another feature of our invention is the provision of a pocket in the game board for the purpose of storing the movable pieces or nine .7

pins and top when they are not in use.

Another feature of our invention is the provision of markers for the purpose of properly placing the movable pieces or ninepins.

We attain these objects in the following described manner, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which similar numerals appear for similar parts. throughout the several views.

. Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the game board with parts cut away for the sake V of clearness.

Fig. 2 is a top view.

n Fig. 3 illustrates the spinning top.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, we have illustrated our game board as comprising a rectangular or oblong box-like structure, comprising a wood bottom 1, a glass surface 2, a leg 3 which is longer than any of the other legs, a leg 4 which is next in 59 height, a leg 5 next in height, and a leg 6, the

shortest, and sides and end pieces 9, assembled as shown.

In the rear end of our game board we have provided a pocket or compartment 13, comprising walls 10, 11 and bottom 12, and end pieces. We have provided this pocket so that when any of the movable pieces or nine pins are knocked over or not in use they may be accommodated therein.

The game further includes a top 7 as illustrated in Fig. 3, and is specially designed with a blunt point 14.

We have provided a set of markers, nine in all, and positionedto one side of the game board as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, so as to properly facilitate the correct placing of the movable pieces or nine pins designated 8.

In playing the game it is of course obvious that the game board should be placed upon a table or other rigid surface; the movable pieces or nine pins are then placed in posi tion; the player takes the top 7 and gives it a twirl withthe hand from the starting position or line 15. The top, after thus being spun, will travel in a forward direction towards and contact with one or more of the movable pieces or nine pins 8, knocking or bowling over any or all of them.

The reason for the top traveling in the proper direction is one of the features of our invention and we believe it is due to two causes: first, the peculiar or lopsided slant of the game board obtained by our particular construction, in thateach of the legs is of a different height, the front end having'the two highest legs, 3 and 5, and the rear or lower end the two shortest legs, 4 and 6; second, the design of the top itself, which we desire to-point out is designed to have a blunt point 14.

From the foregoing description and a study of the drawing, it will be apparent that we.

have provided a game board of novel and simple construction, which may be played with any number of nine pins or movable pieces. Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. A game board comprisin a base memher side and end retaining walls, a rear end compartment, 9. set of markers on surface of said board, a surface member, four legs each of different length supportlng base member.

2. The comblnatlon of a game board com-' prising a base member, side and end retaining I walls, a rear end compartment, a set of markers on the board, a set of pins, a base member, four leg members supporting said board,

each member of different length, and a blunt point top for use on said board.

Signed at Brooklyn, in the county of Queens and State of New York, this twentieth day of March, A. D. 1929. 1

' LORENZ SCHMITT.

BALTHY REIGHOLD. 

